Comments on: Hard Drive Failure http://chris.pirillo.com/hard-drive-failure/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Lord Christ http://chris.pirillo.com/hard-drive-failure/#comment-542543 Lord Christ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:37:11 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/26/hard-drive-failure/#comment-542543 Apart from regular backups... use a RAID in your machine. For example: If you have a RAID level 5 and use it with a set of 3 300GB harddisks (=900GB), that will result in *one* 600GB disk. After formatting, you will have a 560GB partition (example: Windows, NTFS). So you can store 560GB of data on this one partition, which is actually 3 harddisks. If one of them fails, your system keeps running and nothing is lost! Just shut down the machine, exchange the broken drive with a new one, boot up, use as normally. In the background, the new disk will be introduced and receive it's share. There are even hot-swap-RAIDs, so no shutting down would be necessary. You can use more than 3 disks in a RAID 5, but for private use, 3 is fine. Apart from regular backups… use a RAID in your machine. For example: If you have a RAID level 5 and use it with a set of 3 300GB harddisks (=900GB), that will result in *one* 600GB disk. After formatting, you will have a 560GB partition (example: Windows, NTFS).

So you can store 560GB of data on this one partition, which is actually 3 harddisks. If one of them fails, your system keeps running and nothing is lost! Just shut down the machine, exchange the broken drive with a new one, boot up, use as normally. In the background, the new disk will be introduced and receive it’s share. There are even hot-swap-RAIDs, so no shutting down would be necessary.

You can use more than 3 disks in a RAID 5, but for private use, 3 is fine.

]]> By: Barry http://chris.pirillo.com/hard-drive-failure/#comment-531843 Barry Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:40:15 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/26/hard-drive-failure/#comment-531843 I am concerned about my HD suddenly quitting on me and even though i back up my data it still would be a royal pain if my drive went south. I recently posed the question of programs such as HDD Health on Lockergnome asking if anyone had experience with this type of monitoring software and any recommendatios or comments but no responses. Has anyone here installed something like this and have any comments (good or bad). I am concerned about my HD suddenly quitting on me and even though i back up my data it still would be a royal pain if my drive went south. I recently posed the question of programs such as HDD Health on Lockergnome asking if anyone had experience with this type of monitoring software and any recommendatios or comments but no responses. Has anyone here installed something like this and have any comments (good or bad).

]]> By: Barry http://chris.pirillo.com/hard-drive-failure/#comment-531842 Barry Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:40:15 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/26/hard-drive-failure/#comment-531842 I am concerned about my HD suddenly quitting on me and even though i back up my data it still would be a royal pain if my drive went south. I recently posed the question of programs such as HDD Health on Lockergnome asking if anyone had experience with this type of monitoring software and any recommendatios or comments but no responses. Has anyone here installed something like this and have any comments (good or bad). I am concerned about my HD suddenly quitting on me and even though i back up my data it still would be a royal pain if my drive went south. I recently posed the question of programs such as HDD Health on Lockergnome asking if anyone had experience with this type of monitoring software and any recommendatios or comments but no responses. Has anyone here installed something like this and have any comments (good or bad).

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